Quotes About Management

Invest time, don't spend it.

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

Help is the sunny side of control.

that getting all of one's addictions under control is a little like putting an octopus to bed.

Capitalism works only when institutions are forced to absorb the consequences of the risks that they take on.

Johnson did what most politicians do to douse political fires: he formed a study group.

In unstable times, growth comes from leaders who create change and engage their organizations, instead of from managers who push their employees to do more for less.

The thermostat, on the other hand, manages to change the environment in sync with the outside world. Every organization needs at least one thermostat. These are leaders who can create change in response to the outside world, and do it consistently over time.

Managers manage a process they've seen before, and they react to the outside world, striving to make that process as fast and as cheap as possible. Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change that you believe in.

We hire for perfect, we manage for perfect, we measure for perfect, and we reward for perfect. So why are we surprised that people spend their precious minutes of self-directed, focused work time trying to achieve perfect? The problem is simple: Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. Rough

I define a factory as an organization that has figured it out, a place where people go to do what they're told and earn a paycheck.

1. Providing a unique interface between members of the organization 2. Delivering unique creativity 3. Managing a situation or organization of great complexity 4. Leading customers 5. Inspiring staff 6. Providing deep domain knowledge 7. Possessing a unique talent

You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.

As a general rule, managers don't like deviants. By definition, deviance from established standards is a failure for a manager working to deliver on spec. So, most of the time, most managers work hard to stamp out deviance (and the deviants who create it).

Products and services like those require initiative to produce. You can't manage your way to initiative. Interesting side effect: creating products and services that are remarkable is fun. Doing work that's fun is engaging. So not surprisingly, making things that are successful is a great way to spend your time. There you go: initiative=happiness.